Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Honorable mentions: 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny The Guardian and the Thief Stone Yard Devotional Wild, Dark Shore Really just didn’t have categories to put them under. But also highly recommended. 010
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite Memoir: Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista. About the extrajudicial killings by and on behalf of the Duterte regime in the Philippines. The playbook of autocrats is all the same. Tough hang. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite classic that holds up: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: It’s like Who’s on First meets Kafka meets A Clockwork Orange. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite blow-your-hair-back read (the WTF award): Audition by Katie Kitamura. I’m still not sure what the truth is. But I’d read it again. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite cozy sci-fi: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. It’s about robots who want to start a noodle shop in San Francisco after a civil war between California and the rest of the U.S. Favorite book with spontaneously combusting children: Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson. Low sample size. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite ending (tie): Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (horror) and We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezon Camara (Trans picaresque take on Spanish colonialism). Both are translated from Spanish. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite debut: There There by Tommy Orange. Urban Indians in Oakland. I look forward to reading everything else Tommy writes. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite overall (tie): What We Can Know by Ian McEwan. Maybe some recency bias since I finished it late in the year. It’s a slow start, but it’s worth it. I think someone described it as science fiction without the science. Another one where characters are slowly revealed. 120
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Favorite overall (tie): Flashlight by Susan Choi. I loved how each character is different/awful/flawed depending on who was telling the story. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026I’ve seen a lot of book lists in my feed the past couple of weeks. I’m not going to paste my whole reading list from 2025 here, but here were some of my favorites. #BookSky 160
Reposted by Kelly YoungJosh 🐯 Hill @joshtigerhill.bsky.social · 25/11/2025#LearnedLeague #LL107 MD11 thread. Today, I try to get to three wins in a row against the great @awaygames.bsky.social !!! This will be a challenge indeed - Kelly is on a flyer this season. Luckily, I get to Factfuel with All! Nine! COOKIES!!! 131
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 25/07/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 10. Same publisher as previous book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Blindness by Jose Saramago #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 060
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Book 44 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Vera, or Faith, by Gary Shteyngart #prompt21: Character’s name in the title Shteyngart takes the cruel absurdities of current American life and spins them forward to make them crueler but still believable. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 030
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 09/07/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 10. A book the previous character would read at the beach - The Giver Previous book was Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books It’s a classic for a reason. Warm, colorful feelings about this book. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 060
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 06/07/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 9. Shares a narrative technique with previous book (multiple POVs) Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller If only real life could follow this model. 🤞 #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 150
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 05/07/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 8. Cover shares item with the previous cover (a single eye) Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of A Fist, by Sunil Yapa #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 040
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 02/07/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 7. Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. Author shares name with character from previous book (Atmosphere) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 040
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Yes, I’m going slow. I’ll start a book and then change my mind and switch to something else. My next problem is my husband is reading my next selection. I may have to sneak it. 010
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 29/06/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 6. Similar title font to previous book Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Previous book: Cabin) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 150
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 29/06/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 5. Cabin by Patrick Hutchison +/- 30 pages to previous book (Big Chief) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 030
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 22/06/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 4. Big Chief by Jon Hickey Published the same year as the previous book (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, 2025) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 040
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 20/06/2025It’s a page-turner! I’m halfway through my next book, but my brain is still partly living in Bury Our Bones. 110
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 18/06/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 3: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Set in the country where the previous author (Joseph Heller) is from (US) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 141
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 13/06/202552 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 2: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Title shares a word with the previous book’s title, which was 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 1100
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Book 43 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino #prompt9: Genre Four: Set in Winter - literary fiction Great sentences. I’m also using this as book 1 of the Connections Mini-Challenge. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 060
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025That’s one way to look at it. Maybe I’ll save it for the end of the year. I’m also trying to dig into East of Eden for the direction prompt. Another chonker. 010
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Book 42 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Isola by Allegra Goodman #prompt13: Title is ten letters or less I had visions of reading 2666 for this prompt, but it just seemed like too much right now. Maybe another time. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 150
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Book 41 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Starter Villain by John Scalzi #prompt45: Author releases more than one book a year #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 1100
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Book 40 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds #prompt17: Told in verse Very creative. Quick read. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 170
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Book 39 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong #prompt50: Set in the 1940s One of the characters has dementia and occasionally thinks she is back in the 1940s. Definitely a loose interpretation of the prompt. #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 080
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Book 38 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Overstory by Richard Powers #prompt35: Written in the 3rd person Also for the May Mini-Challenge - Seasonal Salad: A leafy, green cover #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 170
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Also using it for the May Mini-Challenge Chef’s Passport Plate: An author from a country you’ve never visited (New Zealand) 000
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I’m shifting Some People Need Killing to #prompt29, the other crossover prompt. Careless People touches on Facebook’s influence on Rodrigo Duterte’s election in the Philippines. One feels like the logical consequence of the other. 010
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Book 37 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #prompt28: A crossover (Set in a shared universe) #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 360
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Book 36 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green #prompt44: A celebrity on the cover. John Green’s social media presence upgrades him to celebrity in my book. Nerd influencer? #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 150
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Book 35 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon #prompt39: Has an epigraph May mini-challenge: Dessert course: Tiramisu - Set in Italy (Sicily during the Peloponnesian War to be exact) #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 030
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Book 34 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World, by Tim Marshall #prompt51: 300-400 pages long #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 040
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 30/04/2025You can’t talk about the effects of mining and the so-called Green Revolution without addressing social class. This is some wonderful science writing. 010
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Book 33 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus — In Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World by Jack Lohmann #prompt43: Explores social class #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 150
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Book 32 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray #prompt52: Published in 2025 Historical novel about Jessie Redmond Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis during the Harlem Renaissance #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 040
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I emailed my local rep in Florida yesterday. Let’s go! 120
Reposted by Kelly YoungCarmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 23/04/2025World Book Day call to action for book lovers in the US 26828
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Book 31 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi #prompt20: A fairy tale retelling #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 070
Kelly Young @awaygames.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Book 30 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Heartwood by Amity Gaige #prompt38: An adventure story #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙 050
